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UK Govt. awareness program to cut teen pregnancies ineffective

July 8, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Washington, July 8 (ANI): A government awareness program in England, devised to cut down teenage pregnancies, drunkenness or cannabis use, had no impact, suggests a study.

Lead authors Meg Wiggins of the Institute of Education, University of London, and Chris Bonell at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, say that the Young People’s Development Programme, initiated in 2004, may have even increased pregnancies.

Partakers were either taking part in YPDP (intervention group) or a youth programme away from YPDP funds (comparison group).

The study found young women in the YPDP group reported significantly more pregnancies, as much as 16 per cent, than in the comparison group, which stood at 6 per cent.

Those in the YPDP group also more commonly reported early heterosexual experience and expectation of teenage parenthood, namely 58 per cent versus 33 per cent and 34 per cent versus 24 per cent respectively.

No definite explanation was found for the results.

Douglas Kirby, a senior research scientist based in the US, said that such findings did not apply to all youth development approaches.

The study has been published in the online edition of the British Medical Journal. (ANI)

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Pakistan has an estimated 5 million drug addicts

June 28, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Islamabad, June 28 (ANI): The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) has estimated that there are about 5 million drug addicts in Pakistan, and that the invasion of drugs is affecting younger people in the country.

KPT Chairperson Nasreen Haque revealed this fact during a seminar at its Staff College on Friday, which was aimed at creating awareness about drug abuse and to prevent it in the society.

She further said that drugs that reach the country under various garbs are threatening to control people’s lives.

She also stressed the need for measures to keep the invasion of such drugs in check.

She said that the country has a colossal problem at hand, and that a committed response was required to address it effectively.

Nasreen insisted that synergistic efforts were required to implement various drug prevention and treatment strategies.

She pointed out that the drug situation was witnessing changing trends, and that people were increasingly turning to Charas, Opium and Heroin.

According to her, synthetic drugs like Ecstasy and Ketamine had also gained popularity and are finding place in parties held in posh localities.

She congratulated the United Nations Association of Pakistan for organising the awareness program, and said that the social disease is to be fought at all levels – individual, parental, community, societal, administrative, legal and educational. (ANI)

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Delhi holds walkathon for the cancer affected

February 2, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

New Delhi, Feb 1, (ANI): Over 3,000 people participated in the annual ‘Cancer Awareness walk’ here on Sunday.

Organized by the ‘Indian Cancer Society’ the ‘Cancer Walk’ was flagged off by Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit.

The walk was meant to create awareness about cancer and to propagate the fact that there is life after cancer.

Sheila Dikshit participated in the awareness program for the third consecutive year and appealed to people to generate confidence in the cancer patients.

Held annually, the walk not only aims to spread awareness, but also seeks to celebrate the undying spirit of the cancer survivors.

The participants included cancer survivors, families, children suffering from cancer, doctors, National Cadets Corps (NCC) and the Armed Force personnel.

Soha Arora who survived breast cancer, said that her zeal to live made her win over this deadly disease.

“Today, I counsel the cancer patients and give them moral support. We have to make the cancer affected families to understand that if we keep our will power strong, we can fight with the disease,” said Arora.

According to World Health Organization (WHO) reports, more than 11 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year, with eight lakh cases being reported in India alone.

Cancer causes seven million deaths every year, which is 12.5 per cent of deaths worldwide. It is estimated that by 2020, there will be 16 million new cases every year.

Cancer is feared to become the leading cause of death worldwide in 2010, passing heart disease. (ANI)

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